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Union renewal and development 23 August 2017 Handbook on union renewal now out in Spanish
With winds of change blowing in the trade union world, a new handbook on union strategies and renewal can help education unions strengthen their positions in times of major political challenges in Latin America.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 July 2015 Advocacy for the introduction of a legal framework governing working conditions in the non-public education sector in Haiti and campaign for unionisation in this sector
Advocacy for the introduction of a legal framework governing working conditions in the non-public education sector in Haiti and campaign for unionisation in this sectorResolution from the 7th World Congress
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Trade union rights are human rights 31 March 2006 Bahamas: Teachers’ Union Calls Industrial Action
After several weeks of locking horns with government negotiators, officials of EI affiliate the Bahamas Union of Teachers have instructed public school teachers to go on "work to rule" and threatened that more serious action could follow.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 March 2006 UK: AUT-NATFHE Conference on Brain Drain
On March 23, EI affiliates the Association of University Teachers (AUT) and the University and College Lecturers’ Union (NATFHE) organised a conference on “Brain Drain” as the final stage of a two-year project on the subject, which had its origins within the EI’s higher education debates.
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Union growth 3 March 2006 Algeria: government threatens to dissolve teacher union
EI is appalled that the two strike actions within an interval of one month by both primary and secondary school teachers did not convince the Algerian government to enter into negotiations with the Inter-Union Coordination of National Education (CITE), to which EI affiliates the "Union nationale des travailleurs de l’éducation...
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Trade union rights are human rights 2 February 2006 Four Canadian unions sign pact to protect collective bargaining
EI affiliate the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) has joined three other labour organisations and formally signed a Mutual Aid and Assistance pact to promote and protect collective bargaining in Canada.
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Trade union rights are human rights 25 January 2006 SENA General Secretary appointed as Gabon's new Minister of Labour
Christiane Bitougat, General Secretary of the Gabonese teachers' union SENA, has been appointed Labour Minister of the new government of Omar Bongo on Jan 19. She is also a member of the Francophone teachers' union committee CSFEF.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 8 December 2005 Germany: GEW denounces the application of EU Services Directive to education
EI affiliate in Germany the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) denounces the application of the European Union Services Directive to education.
Germany: GEW denounces the application of EU Services Directive to education